Key-fastener



z5 fasteners which are designed to be suspended separately, if preferred.

- 35 than isnowin ordinaryuse.

I UNITED 4STATES ljnfrizni'r- OFFICE.

CHARLES W. BRADFORD, -OF THORNDIKE, KEY-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettera Patent NofSSBHB, d atedbruary 213, 1885.`

Application med october' 22, lass. semi Ne. 180.586. (No model.)

To all 'whom it may concern: The guard B consists of a attened oblong Be it known that. I, CHARLES W'. BRAD- shell,composed preferably 'of sheet metal and rom), of Thorndike, in the county -of Waldo, provided with an elongated slot or opening,

.Statepf Maine, Yhave invented a certain new f, in its top, and its object is to prevent the .5 andff'useful Improvement in Key-Fasteners, .fastener from tearing or injuring the garment 55 of which the following is a description seni-g when it is carried in the pocket. cient-ly full, clear, and exact to enable any To attach the guard tothe fastener, the legs person skilled in the art or science to which m are compressed, the hooks r inserted in the said invention appertains to make and use thel slotf, and thelegspermitted to expand, as io samereference being had to the accompany'- shown in Fig. 2.

ing drawings, forming part of this specifica In Fig. 3 the fastener is represented as attion, in which tached to the'key C by the key'ring E and Figure 1 isa front elevation representing chain D, one leg, m, of the fastener beingprovmy improved key-fastener detached fromthe vided with an eye, z, formed integral there- 15 key; Fig. 2, alike view representing it prowith, for securing the chain tothe fastener. .I V65 l vided with the guard; Fig. 3, a front elevado not, however, confine myself to providing tion representing the fastener attached to the the fasteners with an eye for the chain or to key; Fig. 4, atop plan View of the guard, and locating said eye at one side ofthe fastener, as

Fig. 5 an' iscm'etricalperspective'View `repreit may be disposed at the top or in any other zo senting the fastener in use to secure the key. suitable position. The hooks r. and shield B 7o Like letters of reference indicate corremay also be omitted, if desired. Neither do I sponding parts in the dierent iigures of the confine myself to attaching the fastener and drawings. key by means `of a chain and key-ring or in My invention relates to that class of key- .any other mannenas the fastener may be used 75 'from the door-knob or spindle of the door- In the use of my improvement, the door beknob on the inside of the room, andladapted ing locked and the key in the lock,the legs m to engage and prevent itfno'm being turned of the fastener are passed astride the neck v by bnrglars or others 'to unlock the door from of the .knob H, after which they are com- '30 'the outside; and it consists in a novel con# pressed and inserted in the bow of the key C, 8o

struction and arrangement of the parts, as where they are permittedtoexpand and-therehereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by fasten thekey in a manner` which will be by which a more effective and. otherwise dereadily obvious without a more explicit Clesirable article of this character is produced scription.

. Y When the legs of the fastenei expand after 8 5 Thenatnre and operation of the improve# being inserted in the. key, the bow of the'key ment will be readily understood by all confalls into two of the depressions thereby versant with sucht matters fromthe following preventing it from being readily detached explanation. j Y. therefrom. j

4o In the drawings, A represents the fastener As the height of the knob H from the key 9o proper; B, the "guardvC, the key; D, the at-v hole .of thelock varies .considerably accordtachingel1ain; E, the keyring, and H the.. ing to the style'orkindjoiflock used several -doorknoh depressions, are employed in each of the The fastener proper is composed of a single legs m'to correspond-therewith. I do not, how- 45 piece of elastic wire,` preferably steel, and is ever, confine myself to the usent several de- 95 approximatelyA-shaped'in front elevation, as pressions in each of the legs, one or more sinon/n in Figs. 1 and Each leg in ofthe may be employed as desired.

fastener is corrugated to produce the depres- Having .thus explained'myinventien, what sions. ,andtnrned"out slightly at the bottoni Iclairn ie- 5o te form" the heoks 1'." l. Thekey-fastener Agent/inediteiegsm,com roo posedofa single piec of elastic wire hd'proof a ky, and with the 'eye z, for-attaching a. vided with depressions z, fox receiving thebow chain, substantially as set forth.

of the key, and hooks' nfor engaging a. gnard, substantially as described. Y y

2. Thekey-fastener A, cmposed fa'single" `W'itnesses: ple of elasticv wire andprovided with two 0r more:A depressions, ar, for receiving the'bow CHARLES W. xaRADBOImv ANDREW E, MYRICK, DANIEL STARKEY. 

